Response by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Chief Nazi Hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to Recent Death of Croatian Nazi war criminal Milivoj Ašner in Austria

“The recent death of Milivoj Ašner in Austria unprosecuted for his crimes, is a travesty of justice which reinforces the total failure of the Austrian judicial authorities to adequately deal with the issue of Nazi war criminals during the past more than three decades.

Ašner’s role in the persecution and death of hundreds of Serb, Jewish, and Roma residents of the city of Požega, Croatia in his capacity as local Ustasha police chief was critical and his criminal responsibility for their tragic fate is absolutely clear.

To Croatia’s credit they act for his extradition from Austria in 2005 but Ašner was able to escape justice due to faulty handling of his case by the Austrian authorities, who instead of doing everything possible to bring him to justice allowed sympathetic doctors to prevent his prosecution by declaring him unfit for trial although he gave numerous media interviews in which he described his past in a very lucid manner.

“On this occasion it is important to reiterate the critical role of political will in bringing Holocaust perpetrators to justice and to call upon all the countries who face this issue to make an urgent final effort to bring these murderers to justice before it is too late to do so.”

Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today harshly criticized the election yesterday of ultranationalist
Martin Graf of the extremist Freedom Party as the deputy president
of the Austrian parliament. In a statement issued in Jerusalem
by its chief Nazi-hunter Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff,
the Center called the election of Graf “ a highly-distressing
result which will considerably strengthen the forces of right-wing
extremism in Austria, a country whose representatives should
be highly aware of the dangers of such an ideology.”

According to Zuroff:
“Graf has on numerous occasions made clear his extremist views and his
membership in the “Olympia” student union is clear proof of his ultranationalist
ideology. The fact that he could be elected Deputy President of the
Austrian Parliament should light warning signals not only in Austria
but all over Europe.”

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September
15, 2008

Wiesenthal
Center Welcomes Serbian Decision to Seek Extradition of Three
Nazi War Criminals

Belgrade – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today warmly welcomed the decision, announced here today
at a press conference convened by Serbian Justice Minister
Snežana Malovic and chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir
Vukčevic with the participation of the Center’s chief Nazi-hunter
Dr. Efraim Zuroff to seek the extradition of three Nazi war
criminals, two of whom were discovered and exposed in the
framework of the Center’s “Operation: Last Chance” project.
The criminals in question are former Hungarian gendarmerie
officer Dr. Sandor Kepiro, currently residing in Budapest
Hungary; former Ustasha police chief of Požega, Croatia Milivoj
Ašner, currently residing in Klagenfurt, Austria and former
Belgrade Security Police operative Peter Egner, currently
residing in Seattle, Washington, USA. The first two were
found and exposed by the Wiesenthal Center.

In his remarks at the press conference,
Dr. Zuroff stressed the practical and symbolic significance
of the decision and praised the new Serbian government for
undertaking this step which had hereto merely been discussed
by its predecessors.

According to Zuroff:
“In today’s circumstances, in which the most difficult part of bringing
Nazi war criminals to justice is often the lack of political will of
governments to take the necessary action, Serbia’s decision to seek
the extradition of Kepiro, Ašner and Egner sends a powerful message
that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the murderers
and that it is still possible to bring the perpetrators of the Holocaust
to the bar of justice. We hope that these requests will be issued as
quickly as possible to maximize their impact.”

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July
10, 2008

Wiesenthal
Center Receives New Information on Whereabouts of Most Wanted
Nazi War Criminal Dr. Aribert Heim

Puerto
Montt, Chile – The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced today
that it had already received new information regarding the
possible whereabouts of its “Most Wanted” Nazi war criminal
Dr. Aribert Heim, in the framework of the launch of the latest
stage in its “Operation: Last Chance” project. In a press
conference held here today by its chief Nazi hunter, Israel
director Dr. Efraim Zuroff, and its Latin American director
Sergio Widder, the Center's officials stated that since announcing
its new ad campaign for “Operation: Last Chance” in Santiago
on Tuesday, it had received two important tips regarding
the possible whereabouts of Dr. Heim in Chile.

According to Zuroff and Widder:

“The current phase of “Operation:
Last Chance” which includes an ad campaign focusing the
315,000 euros reward for information leading to the arrest
and prosecution of Dr. Heim and meetings with top police
and justice officials in Chile and Argentina to help facilitate
the ongoing investigations, will not necessarily lead to
Heim’s immediate capture. These steps are designed, however,
to put in place the tools which we hope will ultimately
lead to his arrest.”

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June
26, 2008

Wiesenthal
Center Calls for International Experts to Assess Health of
Nazi War Criminal Milivoj Ašner

Vienna – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today called for a panel of international medical experts
to assess the health of hereto unprosecuted, escaped Croatian
Nazi war criminal Milivoj Ašner, presently living in Klagenfurt,
Austria to which he fled following his exposure by the Center
in the framework of its “Operation: Last Chance” project.
In a meeting here today with Austrian Justice Minister Dr.
Maria Berger, the Center’s chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director
Dr. Efraim Zuroff noted that recent photos, videos, and interviews
of Ašner by journalists from the British daily The Sun clearly
disprove the results of court-appointed Austrian doctors
who claimed that Ašner was suffering from dementia and was
too ill to be extradited to Croatia to stand trial for his
crimes as police chief of Požega. Zuroff submitted an affadavit
from Sun journalist Brian Flynn who interviewed Ašner for
45 minutes and found him to be “lucid throughout the interview and that he did not forget any facts such as what he
had done in the war.”

According to Zuroff:
“Austria’s handling of the Ašner case has been severely flawed from the
very beginning and therefore the request that special measures be taken
to assess Ašner‘s health objectively are entirely justified. His tranquil
life in Klagenfurt, protected by the Austrian legal system, is an insult
to his many victims and their families.”

Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today urged Austria to immediately extradite wanted Croatian
Nazi war criminal Milivoj Ašner, who has been living in Klagenfurt
since shortly after his exposure by the Wiesenthal Center
as part of its “Operation: Last Chance” project on June 30,
2004. Ašner, who served as the Ustasha police chief of Požega
during World War II and orchestrated the destruction of the
local Serb, Jewish and Gypsy communities, is wanted for war
crimes in his native Croatia but his extradition has hereto
been blocked by the Austrian authorities on medical grounds. more...

Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today expressed deep regret that Majdanek guard Erna Wallisch,
until last Saturday a resident of Vienna, was spared prosecution
for her Holocaust crimes in the wake of her death in a hospital
in the Austrian capital. In a statement issued today in Jerusalem
by its chief Nazi-hunter Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff,
the Center noted that Wallisch’s death had prevented her
from facing prosecution, which recently became a strong possibility
in the wake of the discovery by the Polish authorities of
five women who had survived the Majdanek death camp and had
witnessed crimes committed by Wallisch. (These testimonies
led to the recent decision the Austrian authorities to reopen
the Wallisch case.)

According to Zuroff:

“Erna Wallisch and her family can
thank the decades-long failure of successive Austrian governments
for the fact that she ultimately was never punished for her
role at the Majdanek death camp and Ravenbruck concentration
camp. The fact that a woman who admitted taking people to
be gassed and guarding them so that they could not escape
was never held accountable for her heinous crimes is a badge
of shame for Austria and stark proof of the decades-long
lack of political will in Vienna to bring Austrian Holocaust
perpetrators to justice. Her death should serve as a reminder
to all the governments which are dealing with the cases of
Nazi war criminals that they had best expedite these prosecutions
while justice can still be achieved.”

Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today urged Austrian Justice Minister Dr. Maria Berger to
expedite the case of Majdanek guard Erna Wallisch, which
was recently reopened by the Austrian authorities, in order
to ensure that she be held accountable for her crimes at
the Nazi death camp on the outskirts of Lublin. In a letter
sent today from Jerusalem by its chief Nazi-hunter, Israel
director Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center noted the urgency
of the situation due to Wallisch’s age (85) and emphasized
the importance of such prosecutions despite the decades that
have passed since the crimes were committed.

According to Zuroff:

“The new evidence and witnesses uncovered
by the Poles have created an unforeseen opportunity to achieve
justice in this case and I therefore urge you to do everything
possible to expedite the investigation in Vienna so that
justice can be achieved. In this respect, it is important
to remember that the passage of time in no way diminishes
the guilt of the perpetrators and that murderers do not deserve
any consideration just because of longevity.

“Austria’s absolute failure during
the past three decades to prosecute Nazi war criminals is
well-known, but one of the first steps you took was to add
50,000 euros to the reward for information on escaped Nazi
war criminal Dr. Aribert Heim. We hope that you will continue
to distinguish yourself from your predecessors by actively
expediting the Wallisch case so that she will not be allowed
to elude justice.

“People like Erna Wallisch do not
deserve any sympathy. The fact that they have not previously
been convicted is a travesty of justice which can now be
corrected. Doing so, will send a very powerful message that
Austria has finally ceased to be a haven for the perpetrators
of the Holocaust.”

Jerusalem-The
Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff, today dismissed as “pure fantasy” the claims by former Israeli colonel Danny Baz that he had participated in the
early eighties in the execution in the United States of notorious
Nazi war criminal Dr. Aribert Heim (“Dr.Death”), who is wanted for the murder of hundreds of inmates of the infamous Mauthausen
concentration camp in Austria. Baz makes his claims in a
book scheduled for publication in France this week under
the title Ni oubli, ni pardon; la traque du dernier Nazi
[Not Forgotten or Forgiven; On the trail of the last Nazi]. more...

Wiesenthal
Center's 2007 Annual Report on Worldwide Investigation and
Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals Notes Continued Failure of
Austria to Take Legal Action Against Holocaust Perpetrators

Jerusalem
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center today released the full text
of its sixth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation
and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period
from April 1, 2006 until March 31, 2007 and awarded grades
ranging from A (highest) to F to evaluate the efforts and
results achieved by more than three dozen countries which
were either the site of Nazi crimes or admitted Holocaust
perpetrators after World War II. more...

July
13, 2007

Wiesenthal
Center Welcomes Decision By Austrian Government To Offer
50,000 Euros Reward For Information Leading To Arrest Of
Number One And Number Two Most Wanted Escaped Nazi War Criminals
Alois Brunner and Dr. Aribert Heim

Jerusalem
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed the announcement made public today by the Austrian Justice Ministry on its official website, that
it was offering the sum of 50,000 euros for information which
would lead to the capture of the number one and number two "Most Wanted" escaped Nazi war criminals Alois Brunner and Dr. Aribert Heim. Brunner, who was last seen alive in 2001 in Syria, where he has enjoyed the full protection
of the Syrian government for decades, was responsible for the deportation to death camps of 128,500 Jews
from Austria [47,000], Greece [44,000], France [23,500],
and Slovakia [14,000]. Heim, whose current whereabouts are
unknown but is presumed to be living in Spain or South America,
murdered hundreds of inmates of the Mauthausen concentration
camp by injecting phenol into their hearts.

†††††

In early 2006, the
Center's chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director, Dr. Efraim
Zuroff, met in Vienna with the Austrian ministers of justice
and the interior to ask the Austrian government to match
the prize of 130,000 euros being offered by the German
government for information leading to the capture of Heim
which the Wiesenthal Center had matched. Thus the Austrian prize brings the reward being offered for information
which will facilitate the arrest of Heim to a total of 310,000 euros.

Zuroff noted that in the past
financial rewards offered for assistance in the capture
of Nazi war criminals had proven critical, as in the case
of notorious camp commander Josef Schwammberger whose arrest
in Argentina was facilitated by a similar reward offered
by the German government.

According to Zuroff:

"
We congratulate the Austrian authorities for joining in the
important efforts to bring these leading Nazi war criminals
to justice and hope that the added prize money will help
make the difference in their apprehension. The passage of
time in no way diminishes the crimes committed by Brunner
and Heim and therefore their prosecution remains just as
important, if not even more important, today than it would have been years ago."

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June
28, 2007

ON
BIRTHDAY OF AUSTRIAN-BORN NAZI WAR CRIMINAL, WIESENTHAL CENTER
URGES AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN REWARD OFFERED
FOR CAPTURE OF DR. ARIBERT HEIM-„DR. DEATH“ OF MAUTHAUSEN

Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today reissued its call to the Austrian government to join
with the German authorities and the Wiesenthal Center in
the financial reward currently being offered to solicit information
which would lead to the capture and trial of escaped Nazi
war criminal Dr. Aribert Heim, who murdered hundreds of inmates
with lethal injections of phenol to the heart in the Mauthausen
concentration camp in Austria in1941.

In a statement issued today in Jerusalem,
the Center’s chief Nazi-hunter Israel director Dr.Efraim
Zuroff noted that almost a year and a half had passed since
his meetings in Vienna with the Austrian ministers of justice
and the interior, both of whom stated that the government’s
participation in such a reward was legally possible, yet
despite the passage of so much time on a matter of such urgency,
no answer had yet been received.

According to Zuroff:
„Today, probably somewhere in South America, Dr. Aribert Heim will be
celebrating his birthday, very-satisfied with the fact that he has
already eluded justice for 45 years. (He was about to be prosecuted
in West Germany in 1962, when he disappeared.) In meetings this week
with the special German police task force to capture Heim, we were
reinforced in our belief that he is still alive and under these circumstances,
the enlargement by the Austrian government of the reward for his capture
can be of considerable help in bringing him to justice. I therefore
urge the Austrian authorities to join in this initiative as quickly
as possible and thereby considerably increase the chances that this
arch murderer will finally be held accountable for his crimes.“

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June
12, 2007

Wiesenthal
Center Welcomes Opening of Investigation by Austrian Authorities
of the Display of Fascist Ustasha Symbols at Recent Bleiburg Gathering

Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today expressed satisfaction in the wake of confirmation
received via the Austrian Embassy in Tel-Aviv that the Austrian
authorities had launched an official criminal investigation
into the widespread display of fascist Ustasha symbols at
the May 12 gathering of Croatian nationalists in Bleiburg
, Austria . The Center's chief Nazi-hunter Israel director
Dr. Efraim Zuroff had officially protested the failure of
the Austrian authorities to prevent or stop the display of
the symbols of the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement which
“made a mockery of Austria's ban on Nazi symbols and its
law against Holocaust denial,” shortly after the event.

In a statement issued in Jerusalem
, Zuroff welcomed the launching of the investigation and
urged its expedition “to send an unequivocal message that
Austria will not allow the display of symbols which extol
the fascist movement which conducted an official policy of
genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies during World War
II.”

“In that respect, there was absolutely
no difference between the Nazis and their Ustasha allies,”
said Zuroff.

Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today protested the utter failure this past Sunday of the
Austrian authorities to prevent or stop the widespread use
of Croatian fascist Ustasha symbols at a gathering of Croatian
nationalist extremists held in Bleiburg, Austria. In a statement
issued in Jerusalem and transmitted orally to the Deputy
Chief of Mission of the Austrian Embassy in Israel, the Center’s
chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director, Dr. Efraim Zuroff called
for a full investigation of the events at Bleiburg and for
steps to be taken to prevent their recurrence.

According to Zuroff:

“The fascist demonstrators at Bleiburg
made a mockery of Austria’s ban on the use of Nazi symbols
and its law against Holocaust denial by showing up in Ustasha
uniforms and waving photographs of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic,
the person most responsible for the genocide carried out
by the Croatian state (NDH) against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies
during World War II.

“Is it any wonder that Austria continues
to give haven to Croatian war criminal Milivoj Ašner, who
lives in nearby Klagenfurt? If nationalist extremists can
parade in Ustasha uniforms in 2007, today’s Austria is obviously
sympathetic to Ašner, whose extradition to stand trial in
Croatia for his crimes as Požega police chief has been blocked
by Austria for over a year and a half.”

Belgrade-
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, met here today with Serbian leaders to
enlist their support in the ongoing efforts to facilitate
the prosecution of three war criminals who committed crimes
against Jews, Serbs, and Gypsies on the territory of former
Yugoslavia during World War II. The cases in question are
those of: former Hungarian gendarmerie officer Dr. Sandor
Kepiro, who participated in the mass murder of civilians
in Novi Sad in January 1942 and is currently living in Budapest;
former Croatian police chief of the city of Slavonska Požega
Milivoj Ašner, who orchestrated the persecution and murder
of hundreds of civilians under his control and is currently
residing in Klagenfurt, Austria; and the former Croatian
governor of Dubrovnik, who carried out a policy of persecution
and repression against Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies and presently
lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

†††††

In separate meetings with Prime
Minister Koštunica (together with Justice Minister Stojković
and President Tadić, Zuroff stressed the need for Serbia
to adopt a proactive stance on these cases and urged the
Serbs to seek the extradition of all three criminals. Both
Koštunica and Tadić expressed unqualified support for the
Center’s attempts to facilitate the prosecution of Holocaust
perpetrators and promised that the Serbian authorities
would make every effort to provide evidence and political
support for this effort.

According to Zuroff:
“I am encouraged by my meetings with both the Prime Minister and the
President, whose support for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals
was unequivocal, and hope that it will be translated into practical
political and judicial action by the pertinent Serbian authorities
as quickly as possible.”

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March 7, 2007

WIESENTHAL
CENTER RENEWS CALL FOR RESIGNATION OF TYROL GOVERNOR VAN STAA
IN RESPONSE TO HIS FALSIFICATION OF THE NAZI PAST OF FORMER
INNSBRUCK DEPUTY MAYOR OBENFELDNER

Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today renewed its call for the resignation of Tyrol governor
Herwig Van Staa in the wake of his attempts yesterday to
falsify the Nazi past of former Innsbruck deputy mayor Ferdinand
Obenfeldner. (Late last week, the Center’s chief Nazi-hunter
Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff had called for Van Staa’s
resignation following revelations that he and other local
political leaders had celebrated Obenfeldner 90th birthday
despite his wartime past as a Gestapo operative in Innsbruck.)

According to press reports, Van Staa
yesterday defended his links to the former deputy mayor by
claiming that Obenfeldner had “never served in the Gestapo
or lied regarding his biography,” in total contradiction
to all available historical documentation. Zuroff called
Van Staa’s statements, as reported by the Austrian media,
“absolutely shocking and incomprehensible,” and sufficient
basis for his immediate resignation.

According to Zuroff:
“Perhaps in Austria, which continues to this day to serve as a haven
for Nazi war criminals such as Milivoj Ašner and Erna Wallisch, it
is acceptable practice for political leaders to cover up the Nazi past
of their colleagues, but we find such behavior exceptionally reprehensible.
Van Staa’s fabrications cannot erase the fact that Obenfeldner was
a Gestapo operative who took part in the anti-Jewish operation in Innsbruck
on Kristallnacht, that he was a member of the SS, and served in a Wehrmacht
unit which participated in heinous war crimes in Greece and Italy.
If Van Staa thinks that such a record is praiseworthy, he obviously
does not deserve to wield political power.”

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March 1, 2007

WIESENTHAL
CENTER CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF TYROL GOVERNOR, INNSBRUCK MAYOR,
AND AND SPO PARTY LEADERS IN WAKE OF HONORS THEY BESTOWED ON
FORMER GESTAPO OPERATIVE AND INNSBRUCK DEPUTY MAYOR FERDINAND
OBENFELDNER

Jerusalem- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
today issued a public call for the immediate resignation
of Tyrol Governor Herwig von Staa and other local political
leaders in the wake of an event they recently organized to
honor former Gestapo operative and Innsbruck deputy mayor
Ferdinand Obenfeldner. Among the politicians who gathered
in Innsbruck several weeks ago to honour the former SS-man
on the occasion of his 90th birthday were Innsbruck mayor
Hilde Zoch, the head of the Tyrolean SPÖ, Hannes Gschwentner,
the chief of the SPÖ in Innsbruck, Ernst Pechlaner and local
SPÖ-politician Marie-Luise Pokorny-Reitter.

In a statement issued today in Jerusalem
by its chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff,
the Center expressed its anger and frustration that individuals
whose deeds during the Nazi period should be publically repudiated,
instead are honored by Austrian public figures, who clearly
should be acting differently.

According to Zuroff:

“The fact that a person like Obenfeldner,
who helped carry out the Kristallnacht pogrom in Innsbruck,
in the course of which innocent Jews were murdered, and who
is also suspected of participating in the killing of two
Polish forced laborers was able to serve for more than 20
years as deputy mayor of Innsbruck and is still presented
as a role model by local public figures clearly shows that
Austria today remains a virtual paradise for Nazi war criminals.
Such behavior makes it more than obvious why not a single
Holocaust perpetrator has been successfully prosecuted in
Austria in more than three decades and why the country is
protecting escaped Croatian Nazi war criminal Milivoj Ašner
(currently residing in Klagenfurt), whose extradition to
stand trial for his wartime crimes in Požega has been requested
more than a year ago by the Croatian judicial authorities.”

“The time has come for Austria not
only to acknowledge the truth of extensive complicity in
Nazi crimes by Austrians, but also to accept and implement
the obvious practical implications,” said Zuroff.

Zagreb – The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s
chief Nazi-hunter Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff met late
last night with Croatian Attorney-General Mladen Bajić and
Deputy Attorney-General Antun Kvakan to discuss ongoing efforts
by Croatia to prosecute escaped Ustasha police chief Milivoj
Ašner (currently residing in Klagenfurt, Austria) and investigate
former Ustasha governor of Dubrovnik Ivo Rojnica (currently
living in Buenos Aires, Argentina). In the course of the
meeting, Zuroff urged the Croatian prosecutors to apply increased
pressure on the Austrian authorities who have hereto refused
to accede to a Croatian request for Ašner’s extradition,
which was submitted in September 2005.

Croatian Attorney-General Bajić acknowledged
the intransigence of the Austrian authorities and promised
to urge the Croatian Justice Ministry to increase its efforts
to expedite the Ašner case.

According to Zuroff:

“Time is rapidly running out in this
case and therefore a concentrated effort must be made by
all involved parties to finally convince the Austrian authorities
that there is absolutely no basis for their refusal to turn
over the former police chief of Požega to face charges for
his role in the persecution and deportation to concentration
camps, where they were murdered, of hundreds of Serbs, Jews
and Gypsies.”

Serbian
Foreign Minister Drašković Expresses Support for Wiesenthal
Center Initiative to Encourage Serbia to Seek Extradition
of Three Nazi War Criminals

Jerusalem – Serbian Foreign Minister
Vuk Drašković expressed his unqualified support for the recent
initiative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to encourage Serbia
to seek the extradition of three Nazi war criminals, in a
meeting held last night in Jerusalem with the Center's chief
Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff.

The criminals under discussion are:

1.

Hungarian
gendarmerie captain Dr. Sándor Képiró, who has already been convicted twice for this role in the murder of over 1,000
civilians in Novi Sad in January 1942 and is currently
living in Budapest.

2.

Croatian Milivoj
Ašner, who as police chief of Požega played an active role in the persecution and
deportation to Ustasha concentration camps where they
were killed of hundreds of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.
He is currently living in Klagenfurt, Austria.

3.

Croatian Ivo
Rojnića, who as governor of Dubrovnik played an active role in the persecution and murder
of hundreds of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies. He is currently
living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Zuroff welcomed the support of Foreign
Minister Drašković and said that a proactive stance by the
Serbian government might ultimately make the difference whether
or not these Nazi criminals would finally be brought to justice.

All three cases have been the focus
of intensive recent efforts by the Wiesenthal Center, with
the latter two having been discovered by the Center in the
framework of its “Operation: Last Chance” project which offers
financial rewards for information which facilitates the prosecution
and punishment of Holocaust perpetrators.